Re: Debian ships very old software (rplay, paps)
On 2025-10-30 19:33:59 +0100, Nicolas George wrote:
> Vincent Lefevre (HE12025-10-30):
> > For instance:
> >
> > * rplay, with the latest changes in 1999 and potential
> > security issues:
> > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1118224
>
> These are not security issues.
How can you be so sure?
> > * paps 0.6.8, while 2 new major versions have been available
> > (the current version is 0.8.0). So, in Debian, paps still
> > does not honor locales:
> > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=759331
>
> Good, locales suck.
That's your opinion, but almost all software honors locales.
> Anyway, there is a trick to not be impacted by old package in Debian: do
> not install them.
That's impossible when there is a dependency.
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